Attachment for bed springs



B. C. RODKEY. ATTACHMENT FOR BET) SPRINGS. APPLICATION FILED MAII424. |920.

AGQRQS., Patented Jan. 10,1922.

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" STATES BOYD C. RODKEY, F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

ATTACHMENT FOR SPRINGS.

Specification of Letterslatent.

Patented Jan. 10, 1922.

Application filed March 24, 1920. Serial No. 368,259'.

To all whom z't may concern Be it known that I, Born C. Ronxnr, a citizen of the United States residing at Cleveland, in the county of duyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Attachment for Bed Springs, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to an attachment for Abed springs, and my primary object is to provide means adapted to hold the bed clothes or covers in place upon a mattress and which means is aflixed to the bed spring bottom to permit the bed clothes to play and iex with the bottom and thus avoid tearing ofthe bed clothes and to permit the bed clothes to be stretched either loosely or tightly upon the mattress, and the attachment is also afixed to the bed spring bottom in a way to permit it to be iexed away from the top surface so that an outer eoverlet or sheet may be used and tucked between the attachment and the spring bottom, all as herein shown, and described and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing accompanying this appli-V cation, Fig. 1 is a cross sectional view of a flexible fastening strap, showing the jaws' open. Fig. 6 is a respective view of the modiication.

The invention comprises a clam ing holder -A- made of a piece of s eetmetal folded upon itself and slotted at its fold line to receive a loop 3 at one end of a spring plate or flexible metalstrap 4 having several perforations 5 at its opposite end. This strap is provided at each side edge with a swiveled wire link 6 havin a hook 7 at its free end wherewith to ma, e a detachable connection with a fabricated bed-sprin bottom B when the strap or late 4 is p aced flat thereon as shown in ig. 2.` The strap or plate is further fastened to this fabricated bottom by a short bolt or screw 8 extending through any one of the several perforations 5 and having a nut 9 bearing against an auxiliary plate P placed in a clamping position at Athe lower side of the bed-spring bottom. The single fastening bolt 8 secures the end of strap 4 to the spring and the links 6 prevent the strap from turning or pivoting around the bolt although not materially hindering the strap from flexing upwardly within limits away from the upper surface of the bed spring. Thus a pull upwardly on the clamping holder will flex the spring-plate or strap 4 until checked by the links 6, but the normal position of the spring-plate or strap 4 is to extend on straight lines and lie flat upon the bed spring and accordingly the strap exerts a constant pull on the bed clothes'C when gripped and held within the corrugated jaws 10 of the clamping holder A.

The jaws 10 are formed by folding the ends of the sheet-metal piece inwardly and corrugating these folded portions transversely, and the jaws are brought together by an eccentric lever 11 which is pivotally mounted opposite the outer face of one of the spring walls of the' holder. The supports for lever '11 permit adjustment of the eccentric relatively to the contact wall, and comprise tubular posts 12 which pass through openings in one wall and connect with screws 13 which extend through the opposite wall of holder A. A coiled spring 14 may also be sleeved over the posts 12 to' pressthe walls apart and open the jaws when the eccentric lever is turned on its pivot for that purpose.

Any number of these clamping holders may be attached on a bed spring, but usually two pair will be sufficient, one pair at the foot and another pair at the head of the bed, and they are particularly designed and intended to hold the bed-clothes in place when the bed is occupied, although they may also be employed when the bed is not in use. In Fig. 6 I show aclamping holder A having a wire yoke 4 pivotally connected therewith and provided with hooks 'L' at its free extremities to permit a detachable connection to be made with the bed spring bottom B, and which when so connected will have a swiveled or'hinged connection with the strap having one end perforated and a loop at its opposite end 1n hinged connection with said jaws, and means adapted to fasten said strap at its perforated end flatwise 10 upon a bed spring bottom. v

Signed at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, this 22nd day of March, 1920.

yBOYD o. RODKEY. 

